Hot Water Cylinder News

McDonald Engineers has designed and delivered an innovative thermal store packaged solution which enables them to offer a new approach to hot water solutions for tower blocks and flats.

The solution was developed for a refurbishment project of a block of 70 flats in the North East of England, which required a more energy efficient solution under the government’s Renewable Heat Incentive programme.

Yes it's that time of year again. The time for the annual McDonald Engineers Christmas Message. This year the sales team are strutting their stuff to that well known Christmas classic the MacaReindeer !!

McDonald Engineers have launched a new brochure to support the changing market demands of market leading thermal store, THERMflow.

Thermal stores are becoming an increasingly popular solution for hot water cylinders, not only because of its ability to deliver mains pressure hot water with limited maintenance implications, but also its ability to handle multi-fuel and renewable energy installations.

McDonald Engineers have added yet another major celebrity to its list of prestigious clients, having worked in conjunction with a mechanical engineer to design the optimum hot water system for Andy Murray’s luxury Cromlix House Hotel development in Scotland.

The company supplied four of its 700 Litre POWERflow Commercial Hot Water Cylinders which were designed to suit the space available and deliver a highly efficient solution which could deliver all of the hot water requirements for guests.

Primary Feed and Expansion Tanks are generally used in open vented central heating systems, where a small water tank is located in the loft for the purpose of feeding and topping up the primary system and providing a receptacle should the primary water expand.

With normal gas and oil boilers there is little or no likelihood of this water being near boiling temperature. However when Solid Fuel/Woodburning Stoves are used, there is a possibility that water close to, or at boiling point, may expand into the tank and this requires the tank to be made from a high temperature material.

McDonald Engineers has demonstrated their ability to deliver the perfect hot water tank by designing, manufacturing and supplying this 250 litre CUBEflow Thermal Store designed to work with a solid fuel boiler and solar thermal panels.

The key requirement of the hot water cylinder was to capitalise on the available space in an existing airing cupboard whilst delivering the required capacity and accommodating two additional fuel sources.